We know there is a tear in the veil leading right into the underworld. The Skrin are attacking, and they look really good. The Keeper of the Underworld is in play. The Stone of Tears is the only way to repair the veil. Zedd: "He who possesses the stone will be able to repair the veil."

The Wizards second rule: Greatest harm can come from the best intentions.

Legend of The Seeker Season Two Cactch Up Video

Season Two Catch up Video In 4 Minutes

This is a great summary of the season with out giving the big ending reveals. Check out the video above.

Exploring Legend of The Seeker Season Two

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Legend of The Seeker is fantasy series based on Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth novel series. Season two appears to cover books two and three "Blood of the Fold" and "Stone of Tears" in which we will see the split and infighting of The Sisters of the Ageil, the return of Darken Rahl from the underworld and the discovery of a new Lord Rahl.

Legend of the Seeker Season one is one of the best produced shows currently on TV from stellar acting, breathtaking action sequences, awe inspiring scenery, and very good story. It is a must see for any fantasy / sword and sorcery fans. I would also highly recommend this show to any SF fans if for nothing else then to see what a good show should look like.

Season Two is unfortunately not as strong as season one. They establish high stakes and an all important quest. Then the story meanders around the country side taking on more of an episodic TV feel rather then a continuous show. On the plus side the show gets better toward the end of the season as they get back on plot.

The show also has a rushed feel to it which left me with an incomplete feeling like they just skipped large parts of the story. I expected large parts of the book to be skipped like they did with season one after all 22 one hour episodes is not enough time to cover two books. The problem is that season one proved that they can do it and do it brilliantly.

Legend of The Seeker Season Two will air on November 7, 2009 and run weekly for the 22 episodes.

Being an independent production that is nationally syndicated it will appear on different times and stations across the country.

With ABC behind the distribution they played a lot of games with the distribution putting episodes are on an 8-day delay delay for Hulu viewing so I watched it streaming through Netflix.

This was a disappointing and frustrating addition to the viewing experience. It's another example of the big studios not getting it.

Our three favorite characters will be returning: Kahlan Amnell played by Bridget Regan (on left). Richard Cypher played by Craig Horner (center). Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander aka "Zedd" played by Bruce Spence (right). We will also get to see a lot more of the Mord'Sith, I'm hopping to find out what happened to Denna as well.

Reckoning is a good Legend of the Seeker season finally. The acting and cinematography are great with a nice dramatic opening unfortunately there was a rushed feeling over this episode coupled with writing choices that took the story in a direction less desired and making the cliffhanger seem weak at best. Overall though Reckoning is still light years ahead of other television shows in quality and it is still a really good Legend of the Seeker episode.

For more detailed conversation check out “The Confessed” a Legend of the Seeker podcast. Where we discuss and geek out on everything from the show Legend of the Seeker, based on the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. Including episode reviews, news, fun fan bits and community comments.

Likes

The effects looked really good

The use of washed out look

Nice dramatic opening

The acting was brilliant

Shota: I really liked seeing the return of Shota and how she stayed true to her goals and ambitions

Cara: I loved how Cara is so direct, unfearful and willing to talk back to Rahl. This was really refreshing seeing another strong, thoughtful, independent female character.

Nicholas

Kahlan: watching her stay consistant in her actions as everything being done for the Seeker and her love for him.

Seeing Richards development come full circle in this episode: from simple woods guide to where he is a formidable fighter without the help of the sword of truth and his ability to not only touch the Agiel but to wield it as a weapon in combat.

Cara’s look when they are discussing that they are wasting heat.

Richard helps Cara to see the truth

Dislikes / Concerns

The pacing felt a little rushed, probably due to the amount crammed into one episode.

Legend of the Seeker: Season 1 Recap

Spoiler Alert

Nicholas: The Creepy Nosferatu Rahl. Son of Kahlen and Darken Rahl and also a male confessor. I really enjoyed the dark twists around this character especially how his playmate Ethan was used as the introduction into Nicholas' darker side.

I like how Shota saw where they came out at using the basin of water. I also thought it was a nice touch of her character by having her stay and look for the key to the Rada'Han

What did you think about Nicholas and how they showed us the dangers of a male confessor? I liked how they brought back up the dangers of the male confessor especially with scenes like the one with Edgermon betraying his Lord Rahl.

What were your thoughts on Zedd dying at his own wizard’s fire?

What did you think about the future of the Mord’Sith? I would have loved an episode on just the betrayal and battle Nicholas on the Mord'Sith.

Review: Legend of the Seeker 121 Fever

Kahlan and Zedd fall victim to a horrific plague unleashed by Darken Rahl as part of his desperate attempt to find the Three Boxes of Orden. Watch the episode streaming online above.

Fever is a stellar example of the high quality of Legend of the Seeker excelling in cinematography, acting, effects, choreographing, story, and pacing. This episode really featured Jennsen and Darken Rahl yet still contained many shinning moments for Richard, Kahlen, and Zedd.

In Fever we get a big reveal about Darken Rahl and Richard... kind of. I have mixed feelings about how this was done on the show. For readers of the book this is the reveal they have been waiting to see. They say the words but wrap them in a situation that has much doubt cast on the truthfullness of the reveal. The writers have said that they changed some things in their adaptation of the book in order to give suprises to those already familar with the tale and I must say this act was a brillant way of tipping their hand without showing us any of their cards.

I really enjoyed the moments when we get to see the heroes and villans in a more mythic manner. Throughout the series the writers have done a great job distinguishing the heros from the villans through demonstrating Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy on the courage of the blood verses the courage of the knife which is discussed in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In short form: the strong (heroic) are willing to die for what they beleive in and the weak (villanous) are willing to kill for what they beleive in. Throughout this series Kahlen, Zed, and Richard have shown their strength through their fearless facing of death putting themselves at risk for what they beleive in whereas Darken Rahl is willing to kill others for his beleife fleeing when things get tough. Fever is great at exemplifying this through the plagued village and everyones behavior surrounding it espically Kahlen, Zed and Darken Rahl.

One funny little short note and a question for those who have watched Fever. There is a moment with Jensen eating red berries in the woods. I thought that you aren’t supposed to eat something red in the midlands. Do you think this was a blooper, lucky break for Jennsen, or a symbol of the changes that the midlands are going through?

For more detailed conversation check out “The Confessed” a Legend of the Seeker podcast. Where we discuss and geek out on everything from the show Legend of the Seeker, based on the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. Including episode reviews, news, fun fan bits and community comments.

Likes

The acting is great

The cinematography was really good they even did a washed out look for the scenes in the village of the sick and the red x on the door is disturbing.

Next Week:Reckoning

The moment of truth comes for Richard to unleash the power of the three Boxes of Orden and face Darken Rahl once and for all.

Spoiler Alert

Discoveries

Mord Sith are headed by Mistress Cara and are called the sisters of the Agiel.

Boxes of Ordin:

The only way to defeat Rahl is to put the 3 boxes together at the full moon.

Richard must learn to possess the power of Ordin and not the other way around.

Ordin is an insatiable wolf only one power can touch the beasts heart and tame it. A touch of love, the confessors touch would counter balance the power of ordin allowing the user to be safe neither fully confessed nor controlled by the box.

Darken Rahl: unleashed a plague on the village only the seekers head would get Rahl to unleash them.

The lienage of Rahl is maybe revealed the writers leaves it vague wether he is telling the truth or not.

Panis Rahl the father: a cruel bloodthirsty tyrant who conquered the lands. He slept around and sired Richard and Jennsen making all three of them siblings. Rahl killed his father to end his cruelty.

Fire Feaver:

a magical plague with disturbing black veins in it victems the welts and finally death.

Review: Legend of the Seeker 119 Cursed

Review of: Legend of the Seeker 119 Cursed
Overall Rating: 9

When a king is transformed into a vicious beast to keep Darken Rahl's D'Haran soldiers at bay, he seeks Richard's help after he begins to murder his own people. Watch the episode streaming online above.

"Cursed" is another well done episode but it lacked some of the rich details I have grown accustomed to in previous episodes. For instance in "Bounty" they were able to give us good background information on the Shadrin throughout the episode. There are many instances where I wished they would have taken a moment to give us the details like why are the D'harens are taught to fear the Calthrop.

I love how in this series they keep mixing up the basic style behind each episode, for instance "Cursed" is a horror style episode. They even maintain good supernatural horror by showing us enough but allowing our minds to fill in a lot of the unknowns. This changing style from episode to episode has kept me on my toes, allowing the show to stay fresh avoiding ruts and preventing me from growing bored with the series.

"Cursed" puts forth a theme which is derived from the name of the episode: One persons curse is another's gift. What should a person do about the demon inside? If one would run and hide, denying those powers, they would put everyone around them in danger. Zed puts forth the answer with the statement power is not power if not controlled. The solution is one must embrace their powers, recognize those powers are part of who they are, and learn how to control it. How did you feel about Kahlan’s initial response to the situation?

What do you think Zed meant by the statement “It is the very reason why we must defeat Darken Rahl." when he was talking abut ultimate power? We know Rahl is a problem to all peoples of the land. We know he is seeking for ultimate control. Is the answer so obvious and simple: Rahl is a danger because he wants ultimate power and would use it unchecked and therefore must be defeated before he gets it or is there something more to the situation?

For more detailed conversation check out “The Confessed” a Legend of the Seeker podcast. Where we discuss and geek out on everything from the show Legend of the Seeker, based on the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. Including episode reviews, news, fun fan bits and community comments.

Likes

The Calthrop:

how they took the werewolf to the next level instead of just on the full moon it’s every night

looks sort of like the lycan, vampire hybrid Michel from underworld.

the teeth

how the curse passed down to whoever sat on the throne

the costumes are very well done

the music was very evocative and fit the scenes well.

They followed the good tenants of supernatural horror and showed just enough leaving the rest up to the imagination

how they did the vision sequence, I found it dramatic thinking how would they get around the seeker without hands.

Zed was great

Con Dar!!!!

I love how the silly guards think that Kahlan’s only attack is her confession ability

The mythology in the scene between Zed and Shota using magic.

Dislikes / Concerns

concern that some will feel cheated over the vision sequence.

concern some will feel that it was not in Zed’s character to forgetting the better anchoring with the unbreakable chains

one too many Deus ex Machina moments

a lot of opportunities for good back story but did not deliver anything of substance

Favorite Quotes

“being a confessor is about certainty, knowing the truth”

“Maybe this is a gift, one you should not deny. It’s a part of who you are.”

“Ultimate power must not go unchecked. We would become monsters. It is the very reason why we must defeat Darken Rahl.”